Rice, Houston Methodist launch NSF-funded program to build Texas’ digital health workforce
Rice’s Office of STEM Engagement, the Houston Methodist-Rice Digital Health Institute and Houston Methodist are launching a three-year program that equips Houston-area high school and community college students and the teachers who serve them with practical skills in biomedical hardware and artificial intelligence for health.
2 Rice teams named finalists in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Two student teams from Rice have been named finalists in the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program by the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Latest editions of Rice magazines highlight rapidly growing global reach, research impact
Rice has released two new editions of its flagship publications — Rice Magazine and R3: Rice Research Review — offering readers a look at the university’s rapidly growing global presence and research efforts aligned with major societal challenges and opportunities.
Finance, computer expert Malamud to present lecture series at Rice Business
Semyon Malamud, senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute and associate professor of finance at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, will host a series of lectures at Rice Business as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Fellows Program.
A new chapter: Rice’s School of Humanities becomes School of Humanities and Arts
To recognize a growing investment in the visual arts and creative writing, Rice’s School of Humanities is changing its name to the School of Humanities and Arts.
Rice accelerates AI innovation to transform teaching, learning and research
With the 2025–26 academic year underway, Rice is taking bold steps to harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in teaching, research and operations. Guided by Momentous, the university’s 10-year strategic plan, Rice is positioning itself as a global leader in the responsible development and application of AI, computing and other disruptive technologies.
Rice opens Sarofim Hall, a transformative new home for the visual arts
The building consolidates Rice’s visual arts programs, long scattered across campus, into a single state-of-the-art space that emphasizes collaboration, transparency and public engagement.
Rice hosts 91 Fulbright students from around the world
Rice has welcomed 31 Fulbright students from 20 countries this academic year, one of the largest groups of international scholars on campus. They join 60 returning Fulbrighters in the Fulbright@Rice community.
Stein’s impact lives on through new civic engagement fund
The Rice community celebrated the life and legacy of longtime political science professor Bob Stein and announced Fund for Social Policy Research.
Rice’s Bajani wins Italy’s top literary prize for ‘The Anniversary’
“The Anniversary” has held the No. 1 spot on Italy’s charts for months; sales have passed 100,000 copies; and the book has become a cultural lightning rod.
From Baldwin’s cafés to Simone’s stages: Rice students explore Black performance across Paris
The course Belonging and Exile: Black Performance and Paris (1900-Today) turned Paris itself into a classroom, pairing readings and screenings with site visits and performances across the city.
Teaching in Paris: Rice faculty reflect on the Global experience
Set in the heart of the city, the Rice Global Paris Center offers more than a space to teach. It’s a framework for courses that draw directly from Paris itself.
Rice earns nation-leading rankings from Niche, Forbes
Rice has been recognized among the nation’s best colleges this week — coinciding with the beginning of its fall semester — ranking No. 10 on Niche’s 2026 Best Colleges in America list and No. 12 on Forbes’ annual America’s Top Colleges list.
Message from the president: Welcome back, Owls!
It is with great excitement that I welcome you back to Rice for the start of another academic year. Our campus has come alive once again with energy, anticipation and purpose. Last week, we officially welcomed 1,300 new undergraduates during O-Week along with a preliminary count of more than 1,400 new graduate students. Today, classes begin for us all.
A growing university: Rice welcomes 97 new faculty to bolster teaching, research
Just like incoming freshmen are getting to know the Rice campus during O-Week, newly hired faculty spent two days in an orientation of their own before classes start.
